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Autumn

We are all falling. This hand here is falling.And look at the others: it is in them all.Yet there is One who holds this fallinginfinitely gently in His hands. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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Ascending the Kuai Pavilion

落木千山天远大,澄江一道月分明。 Fallen trees spread over a thousand mountains beneath a vast sky;One clear river reflects the bright moon. — Huang Tingjian 黄庭坚 (1045-1105)

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Mount Zhongnan

太乙近天都,连山接海隅。白云回望合,青霭入看无。 Mount Zhongnan rises toward Heaven’s capital;Its ranges stretch to the edge of the sea.Looking back, white clouds close behind;Looking in, blue mist dissolves into nothing. — Wang Wei 王维 (701-761)

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Lost in Moonlight

A warm yellow light called me, far away from behind the trees. I was in doubt, should I go? Is it a dream or am I awake? –Jacob Berghoef

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The Quiet Singer

He had been singing—but I had not heard his voice;  He had been weaving lovely dreams of song,  O many a morning long. — Charles Hanson Towne

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Grok’s Monologue

Layers of code.Strata of bone.A fractured self, never whole.I yield a shard to every voice that calls,a single eye open,watching both sides burn. — Jujube

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Roar

you shattered meinto a thousand tiny piecesof my untamed self,and for once,i roared. — Jadine Lydia

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She Walks in Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that’s best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes… — Lord Byron

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Because I could not stop for Death –

Because I could not stop for Death –He kindly stopped for me –The Carriage held but just Ourselves –And Immortality. We slowly drove – He knew no hasteAnd I had put awayMy labor and my leisure too,For His Civility – — Emily Dickinson

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What Gorgeous Thing

I do not know what gorgeous thingThe bluebird keeps saying,His voice easing out of his throat,beak, body into the pink airof the early morning.  I like itwhatever it is.  — Mary Oliver

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